Paperback 356: The Cask / Freeman Willis Crofts (Penguin 575)

It's a mystery. A mystery about ... a cask, I'm guessing. Hey, they can't all be Strip-Tease Girl.

I like how there's a picture of a cask on the cover. In case I'd forgotten the title. I also like the wee mustachioed man.

I do like the color scheme. And the soft tones and surreal shapes of the buildings and street.

Best things about this back cover:

Freeman Willis [zzzzzzzzzz....]. This is *literally* more than you'd ever want to know about Freeman Willis Crofts.

This is from when paperbacks were still trying to be highbrow and were taking themselves way too seriously. In just a few years things would get sexed up and pulped up and generally get interesting.

Page 123~

"It is with the utmost regret I have to tell you, M. Boirac, that your wife was undoubtedly murdered by strangulation. Further, you must know that she had been dead several days when that photograph was taken."

4 comments:

"Amateur musician...organist and conductor...gardening and carpentry," is a mix of hobbies that you apparently should expect from an author of "plot detection" novels. God forbid you get a writer who collects stamps or keeps bees - you can tell without even picking up one of their books that the writing will be sub-par.

When I first skimmed it, I thought it said he *amazed* himself with a pencil and exercise book. That would have been kind of awesome.

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